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3,284 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

grosse légume: big cheese, bigwig
grosse menthe: synonym of gros thym (“Indian borage”) (Coleus amboinicus)
grosse vache: an overweight woman
grosselle: a currant or gooseberry
grossement: coarsely, roughly
grossesse: pregnancy
grosseur: thickness, width; lump in the body
grossier: coarse (physically, not fine); shoddy (not well-made); coarse; rude, uncouth; gross
grossier merle: a rude and ill-mannered person, an impolite character
grossir: to increase, to make larger; to plump up; to put on weight, to gain weight; to get fat
grossir le trait: to exaggerate, to caricature (often on purpose, so as to make something appear more clearly)
grossir les rangs: to swell the ranks
grossissant: increasing; magnifying; fattening
grossissement: magnification
grossisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of grossir
grossiste: wholesaler
grossium: leading light; influential person
grossièrement: shoddily, sloppily, scruffily (badly-made and hurriedly); coarsely (in a coarse manner); grossly; roughly, more or less
grossièreté: coarseness; rudeness, profanity, obscenity
grosso modo: roughly, circa, approximately
grossophobe: fatphobic
grossophobie: fatphobia (fear, dislike or discrimination of obese people)
grossoyer: to engross
grossulaire: grossular
grossuline: grossulin
grotesque: farcical (ridiculous); grotesque
grotesque: grotesqueness
grotesquement: grotesquely
grothendieckien: Grothendieckian
grotte: cave (a large, naturally occurring cavity formed underground)
grouillant: swarming
grouillement: swarming; swarm
grouiller: to mill about, swarm with people; to swarm or crawl; to hurry; to get a move on
grouillot: jack of all trades; messenger boy
groupe: group
groupe de discussion: focus group
groupe de parole: support group
groupe de pression: pressure group, advocacy group, lobby
groupe de réflexion: think tank, focus group
groupe de travail: working group, task force; workgroup
groupe nominal: noun phrase
groupe sanguin: blood type (blood classification)
groupe électrogène: generator
groupement: grouping; group
grouper: to group (to put together to form a group)
groupie: groupie
groupiste: groupist
groupusculaire: groupuscular
groupuscule: groupuscule (small political group)
grouse: grouse
gru: grits
gruau: gruel; porridge, oatmeal
grue: crane (bird); crane (machine); prostitute, hooker
grue canadienne: sandhill crane
grue de Sibérie: Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus)
grue royale: grey crowned crane
gruger: to dupe, con; to rob; to devour, scoff
grugé: eroded
grume: log (wood)
grumeau: lump